Ernest Robert Noir (1864-1931) - Girl, 1885

Ernest Robert Noir (1864-1931) Fillette, 1885
Oil on panel in its gilded frame
17 x 11.5 cm (dimensions without frame)
33 x 27 cm with frame
Signed, dedicated and dated 1885
upper right Accident in the upper part of the frame

Born in 1864 in Paris. Died on May 13, 1931 in Paris, by suicide following an illness. XIX ° -XX ° centuries. French. Genre painter, portraits, figures, draftsman, watercolorist, illustrator. Post-Impressionist. He was the nephew of journalist Victor Noir, killed in 1870 by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, cousin of the emperor. Ernest Noir was a pupil of Castellani, military painter, of Yvon, then of Hebert. He lived and worked in Paris, as well as in the family home of Bois-le-Roi from 1903. His first works were signed Ernest Noir then, from 1912, Robert Noir. He befriended the painter Etienne de Martenne and with Louis de Monard whom he helped to orient towards sculpture. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1884 with a first shipment (Interior) then regularly from 1886 to 1908. From 1912, until 1920, he exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes. He also appeared in Paris in 1913 at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1903 he obtained an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français. He showed his works in a unique private exhibition, in 1918, at the Devambez gallery (Paris). Retrospectives of his work were presented in 1981 at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, in 1984-1985 at the Museum of Vernon. Painter of figures, he excelled in vividly translating Parisian types: neighborhood children, young girls, vagabonds, beggars, destitute, prostitutes or sometimes fishermen and Dutch peasants brought back from his stays in the Netherlands.